Voting Methods

Voting Methods. Pursuant to current law, Mississippi armed services and overseas voters may: A. Use a duly executed federal postcard application (FPCA) (as provided in the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, 42 U.S.C. 1972 ff et seq.) to register to vote, to request an absentee ballot or to do both simultaneously B. Use mail to transmit the FPCA or receive and/or transmit absentee ballots; C. Use electronic facsimile (fax) devices to transmit the FPCA or receive and/or transmit absentee ballots; and D. Use electronic mail (e-mail) to transmit the FPCA or receive and/or to transmit absentee ballots (P.L. 107-252 §702). E. Use the Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot (as provided in 42 U.S.C. 1973 ff 2) in all general, special, primary and run-off elections for local, state, and federal offices (Miss. Code Ann. § 23-15-692); and F. Be sent absentee ballots by the local voter registrar within 45 days of the next election or within 24 hours, if possible, of receipt by the registrar of a proper application requesting same. G. Sign an absentee ballot application by electronic signature, by use of a Mississippi- specific version of the Federal Post Card Application, which shall be substantially similar in form to that following hereafter at Exhibit 4.2-A, and available on the Mississippi Secretary of State’s website(s)(www.sos.ms.gov).